The inspiring Agincare Heroes Awards 2025 saw over 100 team members gather from Agincare services nationwide to celebrate and recognise the incredible work that our teams carry out every single day. We were privileged to thank Advania for choosing to be the Rising Star of the Year Sponsor.
Advania – a trusted partner
Trust and expertise that can be relied upon is crucial in any partnership. Advania may be one of our more recent partners, but their key role in our future development, technology systems and business growth cannot be understated, most recently in relation to our company-wide 365 roll-out.
A Day Fit For Heroes
The Agincare Heroes 2025 event started in fantastic fashion with a welcome reception followed by an uplifting awards ceremony hosted by Adam Luckhurst with Agincare Founder and Chairman Derek Luckhurst and Group Chief Executive Raina Summerson. The programme was packed: Employee of the Year, Chef of the Year, Nurse of the Year, Outstanding Leader, Care/Support Worker of the Year, Support/Customer Service of the Year, Care Team of the Year, Registered Manager of the Year, the Will Mitchell Award for Outstanding Contribution, and culminating in the award of five prestigious Agincare Hero Medals.
Rising Star of the Year Award
Advania chose to sponsor the Rising Star of the Year Award, a perfect match for their role in laying the foundations for a bright future at Agincare. The award also had the honour of opening the Agincare Heroes Awards ceremony 2025. On introducing the award, host Adam Luckhurst thanked Advania for sponsoring the Rising Star category, which recognises emerging talent in Agincare – the people already showing top-tier potential and destined to shine brightly.
Agincare Founder and Chairman Derek Lukchurst, and Group Chief Executive Raina Summerson announced that HR Business Partner Jacob Chalker(pictured below) as the winner following a string of glowing nominations from colleagues across the organisation. Kirsty Adlam and Jade Wilsden from our Live-in Care Southeast Team were Highly Commended in the Rising Star category. A bright future lies ahead for all.
Special Moments and Highlights
The event wrapped up with moving closing remarks from Agincare Founder and Chairman Derek Lukchurst, and Group Chief Executive Raina Summerson before guests made their way to the Chewton Glen lawns for a wonderful group picture.
View the winners and highy-commended team members.
Thank you to our trusted sponsor Advania
Agincare Heroes Awards is now in its fourth year, and each year it reaffirms something fundamental: it’s all about people. Recognising not just the big wins, but the daily small things – the compassion, the leadership, the kindness, the steady reliability that often goes unseen. These moments ripple out to impact residents, colleagues and communities.
We can’t wait to celebrate Agincare Heroes again next year!
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